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Bootycandy
Full-Length Play, Satire/Political Satire / 2w, 3m
Image: 2014 Playwrights Horizons Production (Joan Marcus)
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Cast Size
2w, 3m -
Duration
120 minutes (2 hours) -
Subgenre
Not Applicable -
Target Audience
Adult
Accolades
Winner! 27th Annual Lambda Literary Award, Best LGBT Drama of 2014-15
Nominee: Two 2015 Lucille Lortel Awards
Nominee: 2015 Drama League Award for Best Play

Details
Summary
Sutter is on an outrageous odyssey through his childhood home, his church, dive bars, motel rooms, and even nursing homes. Playwright Robert O'Hara weaves together scenes, sermons, sketches, and daring meta-theatrics to create a kaleidoscopic portrayal of growing up gay and black. Uproarious satire crashes headlong into the murky terrain of pain and pleasure and… Bootycandy.
History
Bootycandy made its world premiere in June 2011 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. The production was directed by playwright Robert O’Hara. On August 22, 2014, Bootycandy premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, starring Phillip James Brannon, Jessica Frances Dukes, Jesse Pennington, Benja Kay Thomas and Lance Coadie Williams, again under the direction of the author.
Cast Attributes
Keywords
- Time Period Contemporary, Present Day, New Millennium/21st Century, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s
- Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes, Period Costumes
- Additional Features Not Applicable
- Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
- Cautions
- Alcohol
- Intense Adult Themes
- Strong Language
- Nudity/Partial Nudity
Media
“Smart, searing, and sensationally funny.” – The New York Times
“Explosive. Insanely entertaining and completely engaging.” – New York Magazine, Read More
“Sassy and saucy! You may never think of the words ‘booty’ and ‘candy’ the same way ever again.” – New York Post, Read More
“Smart, searing, and sensationally funny.. Robert O'Hara reveals an important asset for a playwright to make his mark: fearlessness.” – The New York Times, Read More
“Funny, smutty, and enticingly subversive. A toxically satiric portrait of American life.” – Washington Post, Read More
“The punchline in O’Hara’s work? His recognition and dissection of that ill-fitting straitjacket called political correctness.” – New Yorker, Read More
“Outrageous... lively... O'Hara's play is all the more powerful for being so fearlessly unpredictable.” – Los Angeles Times, Read More
“A spiralling, high-energy triumph.” – The Guardian
“O’Hara writes each scene with fierce wit.” – The Stage
ON BREAKING CHARACTER
Scene Study and Classroom Reading: Plays for Colleges and Universities
by Becca Schlossberg
August 23, 2019
BootycandyTakes LAMBDA Literary Lammy Award for LGBT Drama
by Courtney Kochuba
June 2, 2015
A Bold Exploration Into Bootycandy
by Rebecca Schlossberg
June 30, 2015
Videos
Scene from Bootycandy, Playwrights Horizons
Robert O'Hara talks Bootycandy, Playwrights Horizons
Trailer, Playwrights Horizons
Trailer, Wilma Theater
Photos
Image: 2014 Playwrights Horizons Production (Joan Marcus)
Image: 2014 Playwrights Horizons Production (Joan Marcus)
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £55 per performance plus VAT when applicable.
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